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- John and Jane Adams Postcard Collection
Description of San Diego on postcard
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PC-000-990G
Inside of postcard-stock cover of paper foldout images of San Diego, with description of San Diego
1920s
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This is the inside cover of PC-000-990A and PC-000-990B, which are paper printouts of postcards glued onto the top of this sheet of cardstock. It describes San Diego as a tourist attraction, with a lilttle history and geography of the area. This mailpiece must have been produced between 1927 (when the El Cortez Hotel pictured inside was built) and 1930, when the Bank of Italy (also shown in the foldout) changed its name to the Bank of America.
San Diego; Balboa Park; Army bases; Navy bases; Spirit of St. Louis
California - San Diego
- John and Jane Adams Postcard Collection
MS-0008
English
M. Kashower Co., Los Angeles, California, US
Postcard
8.5 inches x 6.1875 inches
No
PC-000-990-SIDEA; PC-000-990-SIDEB; PC-000-990H; PC-000-990I
[not all text is transcribed, only some bits of historic interest]
SAN DIEGO
AIR CAPITOL OF THE WEST
San Diego ...discovered in 1542 by Juan Roderiquez Cabrillo. The first white settlement on the Pacific Coast of what is now the United States, was established at San Diego in 1769 with the founding of Mission San Diego D'Alcala, the first of the long chain of California missions, by Father Junipero Serra. Near San Diego was fought the famous battle of San Pasqual, and in 1846 John C. Fremont raised the American flag at San Diego for the first time in California.
...Balboa Park, located inthe very heart of the city, comprises 1,400 acres ...The site of the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition ...
The Zoological Gardens are fourth largest in America, and rank second in variety of specimens. ...A tour of the army and navy establishments ...Included in these posts centering around San Diego are the Naval Air Station, Naval Training Station, U. S. Marine Base, Destroyer Base, Rockwell Field, Naval Hospital, Fort Rosecrans, and a cavalry post, Camp Hearn. ...
The City has been the scene of much aviation activity since 1910. Both army and navy have important aviation fields here, and Lindbergh's plane was built here. The city's new municipal airport, ...has been named for the famous flier who started at San Diego.
SAN DIEGO
AIR CAPITOL OF THE WEST
San Diego ...discovered in 1542 by Juan Roderiquez Cabrillo. The first white settlement on the Pacific Coast of what is now the United States, was established at San Diego in 1769 with the founding of Mission San Diego D'Alcala, the first of the long chain of California missions, by Father Junipero Serra. Near San Diego was fought the famous battle of San Pasqual, and in 1846 John C. Fremont raised the American flag at San Diego for the first time in California.
...Balboa Park, located inthe very heart of the city, comprises 1,400 acres ...The site of the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition ...
The Zoological Gardens are fourth largest in America, and rank second in variety of specimens. ...A tour of the army and navy establishments ...Included in these posts centering around San Diego are the Naval Air Station, Naval Training Station, U. S. Marine Base, Destroyer Base, Rockwell Field, Naval Hospital, Fort Rosecrans, and a cavalry post, Camp Hearn. ...
The City has been the scene of much aviation activity since 1910. Both army and navy have important aviation fields here, and Lindbergh's plane was built here. The city's new municipal airport, ...has been named for the famous flier who started at San Diego.
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